Veteran Mounts Challenge Against Democrat in Midterms, Could Become Only Black Republican Woman in House

Jennifer-Ruth Green, an Air Force veteran, won the Republican primary for Indiana's 1st Congressional District. She will face Democratic Rep. Frank Mrvan in the general election in November. Courtesy of Green's campaign

When Jennifer-Ruth Green, a black woman, won an overwhelming victory in Indiana’s 1st Congressional District Republican primary in May, she helped improve the chances that the GOP would take the once-reliable Democratic district in the general election.

Not only did Green, a political newcomer, beat an accomplished politician, Blair Milo, who served as mayor of LaPorte, Indiana, and is currently in the administration of Indiana’s Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, she also won by a comfortable margin.